A Guide to the United Steelworkers

Members of the United Steelworkers work in every sector of Canada’s economy in every kind of job. We work in call centres and credit unions, mines and manufacturing plants, offices and oil refineries, restaurants and rubber plants, sawmills and steel mills and security companies. We work in nursing homes, legal clinics, social agencies and universities. Steelworkers make glass and paper and plastics. We process forest products and quarry stone. We make furniture and freight cars. We maintain railways and drive trucks. Steelworkers are women and men of every ethnic background and we speak many languages. We work in every region of Canada. The United Steelworkers is one big snapshot of the entire working population of Canada. The union is proud of its great diversity.... more

The United Steelworkers in Canada: A Story of Struggle, Growth, and Evolution

The United Steelworkers at the beginning of the 21st century barely resembles the mostly-male industrial union of the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s. But the increasing diversity of the membership has only strengthened the basic principles on which the union was founded. ... more